Daily Life In The Donbas Region Of Ukraine

KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 17: Workers clear snow from the Alley of Heroes in a cemetery on February 17, 2025 in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. More than 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives in combat since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Donbas War began in April 2014 after a coup by Russia-backed mercenaries in the city of Donetsk and Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine. The confrontation between an expansionist Russia and Ukraine aspiring to consolidate its independence has laid waste to the Donbas and Russification has been brutally imposed on the six million mostly Russian-speaking inhabitants. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images)